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Nassau Community College

Every mention, in time. Each mark is a day — taller means more that day — and links to the moment.

Tim’s take

He treats his own time there as the low point of his adult life — going back at 27 or 28 to finish an associate's degree he never actually collects, eating Taco Bell in the food court, mortified to be doing gym class with teenagers 13:50 22:23 16:53. From there it becomes his general shorthand for Long Island failure, the school that produces waiters at the Cheesecake Factory and volunteer firemen who never left 22:34 20:13, with "this is where success starts and continues" repeated as a standing sarcastic tag 1:00:07 16:53.

He carves out one exception: the debate team, which he calls the only thing that resembled a real college experience, including a national gold medal won while stoned 48:29. He also turns the school into a punchline of underdog credibility against actual elite institutions, joking that Nassau looks better once Harvard's admissions scandals break 15:35 1:00:07.

References
10
Span
Feb 28, 2017 — Nov 22, 2020

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